Publication details
Pi Urek, the Children of Water - On Misak tribe in south of Colombia
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the beginning, there was a hat… actually, in the beginning there was a great flood, and in order to escape it, people and animals and trees and stones and birds and all the living and non-living beings embarked on the huge straw hat that was drifting, like a giant ship, on the new-born ocean, and sailed far and even further away. And everybody got used to these conditions, stopped to reminisce and to complain, and in time settled down, and lived on the floating hat and forgot that it is actually not a real land, but just a straw hat. And it went so for years and years… and the Sun was shining during the day, and the stars were guiding the hat during lengthy nights. And then… one loose starry beam fell down off the sky onto the straw hat and thrust through the enormous headwear like a giant needle, through the straw and the layers of Earth as well, all the way to the centre of the inner hollow world, so all the water disappeared in the internals of the Earth, and the level of the primordial ocean dropped, so in the end the hat landed, softly and smoothly, again on the firm ground. But people got so used to living on the hat, so they stayed on this rumpled broad-brimmed hat, rumpled by the falling star… which today forms the mountains of Cauca. And those people were first Misaks. Misaks {in Spanish Guambianos} are indigenous people living in south of Colombia, in the north-east of departamento Cauca (“Mother of forests”), with population of about 20 000 people. They call themselves Piurek “children of water” and their language namuy wam (“our language”) belongs to so called Barbacoan family spoken in Colombia and Ecuador. |
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